If Hannah White isn’t a name that you know, this is now the time to educate yourself. I remember seeing her play in Tooting a few years ago when I went to support another artist and she stole the evening.…
Phillips Saylor Wisor has led an interesting life, wandering the back roads of the American dream. With Distant he channels the ghosts of the highways and byways. He follows paths established by the likes of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and…
“… only time will tell if I reawakened these songs or simply botched them up.” With those words Ester Rose introduces listeners to her EP of covers, My Favorite Mistakes. Covering songs by Sheryl Crowe, Nick Lowe, Roy Orbison and…
Only a few years back, Todd Warner Moore wrote his first set of lyrics for his ‘Birdsong’. Since, the artist has turned out well over sixty tracks. The philosophical troubadour of Hong Kong’s Lamma Island originally hails from across the…
Brooklyn’s Woods share heritage with the likes of Kevin Morby (their former bassist), Real Estate and Kurt Vile. But 11 albums into their career, Woods’ pastel psych-pop/folk remains more under the radar (in the UK at least) than their contemporaries.…
“Thought I was alone in the world, until my memories gathered round me in the night” Jason Isbell sings on ‘What I’ve Done to Help’, the opening track to Reunions. The rolling chorus repeated like a mantra towards the end,…
Long before there was a trilogy of albums on the history of Essex, the 2012 instrumental record inspired by Lidos, an EP of tunes inspired by diesel commuter trains, or Chants for Socialists, Darren Hayman used to specialise in songs…
We live in strange times. No one is more aware of that than Steve Earle. “One of the dangers that we’re in is if people like me keep thinking that everyone who voted for Trump is a racist or an asshole,…
“Every brick you’ve hurled, I’ll use to build the world” The Amazing Devil’s record begins, as all should do, with the wind howling and a low bass reverberation, with Joey Batey and Madeline Hyland’s spoken-word delivery. It then spills directly…
My Girl the River is the project of Louisiana singer and musician Kris Wilkinson Hughes. The band is fleshed out by her husband Joe and daughter Ruby on double bass and harmonies respectively. Cardinal in the Snow is the follow…